WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2018 /Standard
Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court
Judge George C. Smith for the Southern District of Ohio agreed with Judicial
Watch in
rejecting an attempt by the AFL-CIO's Philip Randolph Institute to
reinstate 1.5 million potentially ineligible voters onto the voting rolls.
Judicial Watch's
amicus curiae brief opposed this radical step because it would harm the
public interest, given that so many of the reinstated registrations would be
legally invalid because they are associated with voters who are living in
other states or are deceased (Phillip Randolph Institute, et al., v. Jon
Husted, Ohio Secretary of State (No. 2:16-cv-00303)).

This second failed challenge to Ohio's voter law came after the U.S. Supreme
Court, on June 11, 2018, upheld an Ohio law providing that the State had to
send address confirmation notices to all registered voters who had not voted
in the previous two years.